Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46454 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3394
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We propose a smooth multibidding mechanism for environments where a group of agents have to choose one out of several projects. Our proposal is related to the multibidding mechanism (Pérez-Castrillo and Wettstein, 2002) but it is 'smoother' in the sense that small variations in an agent's bids do not lead to dramatic changes in the probability of selecting a project. This mechanism is shown to possess several interesting properties. First, the equilibrium outcome is unique. Second, it ensures an equal sharing of the surplus that it induces. Finally, it enables reaching an outcome as close to efficiency as is desired.
Subjects: 
mechanism design
NIMBY
JEL: 
D78
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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